東京都

NYTimes has story from Sept 27, 1912 about Japanese Typhoon: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0DE5DF133CE633A...

I doubt this is the 1912 typhoon you mentioned. I can't imagine how a typhoon that came ashore in Osaka could still have enough force to toss boats in Tokyo. I'd like to figure out when this typhoon was - best guess I have after a couple hours of web searching (in Japanese and English) is 1917, but that's outside of LoC's target range of 1910 to 1915. I posted some info on the Meiji Maru photo.

I don't think the boat was anchored on the coast. It looks more like a river boat or a small inland fishing boat that was probably anchored a mile inland and was raised up by either a wave surge or flooding. There could be a little river very nearby.

Please reconsider retitling this photo to spell out Japanese. The abbreviation chosen is offensive to many and reverts to the dismissive terminology used during WWII and is out of place in this day and age. -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

Thanks for understanding that no offense is intended. We retain the original title of a photograph as part of preserving the historical record. The Bain News Service photo titles are available from several sources—typed in the set of caption cards consulted while making the scans, hand-written on an older set of cards, and etched on the negatives themselves. In this case, the abbreviated term is the only form found.

such a beautiful view!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Around the World Cityscapes, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hmm, the caption says "typical houses", but this is a commercial street. Many of the buildings were probably homes over businesses.

Very pretty.

Lovely image of the cherry blossoms. I'm surprised there aren't more people viewing them.

Nagasaki University has a shot from the same location by an unknown photographer, dated around 1890 based on the cherry tree age. It's taken just east of current Akasaka Mitsuke intersection, looking west towards the crossroads of Benkei Bridge.

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